numerous from one point than our figure represents them. 
Mainly on this account, as it would appear, Boissier makes two 
varieties, his var. Broussonetii, and var. alyssoides. Seeds were 
sent to us by Mr. Wellwitzsch from Portugal, and the plants bear 
their lovely flowers during the summer and autumn. 
Descr. Our annual plants (and they would hardly survive a 
winter in our climate) have erect, but flexuose, branching sfems, 
scarcely a foot high, terete, hoary, as is the whole plant, petals and 
stamens excepted, with short stellated hairs. Leaves lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate or more frequently subspathulate, tapering 
a good deal at the base, but sessile, sometimes sinuate-dentate, 
more usually quite entire. Yowers large for the size of the 
plant, im lax, terminal, many-flowered racemes. Pedicels at 
first very short, at length about equal in length to the calyx. 
Calyx narrow, oblong. Sepals linear, obtuse, quite erect, two 
of them a little gibbous at the base. Petals obcordate, clawed, 
delicate, bright, pink-purple (not albido-flavi, as De Candolle 
describes them), the lamina spreading horizontally (not veiny, 
like Malcolmia maritima, Bot. Mag. t. 166). Stamens six: the 
four longer nearly equalling the pistil; two shorter rather longer 
than the germen. Germen cylindrical, downy. Style short. 
Stigmas two, long, linear, glandular within, and at the margin 
and apex, and united for the whole length of their faces into one, 
more or less bifid at the point. Si/igua two or two and a half 
inches long, slender, terete (not torulose), flexuose, erecto-patent, 
terminated by the style and now sharp, withered stigma. 
Fig. 1. Stamens and pistil. 2. Pistil. 
